Test Automation Contracts in Portsmouth

Automated Testing
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - -3
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 10 0 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 8.13% - 7.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.00% - 7.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile £454 - £503
25th Percentile £507 - £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 - £515
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.44%
75th Percentile £521 - £568
90th Percentile £526 - £599
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +20.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 8
10th Percentile £51.00 - £49.38
25th Percentile £52.50 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £53.00
75th Percentile £58.75 - £58.38
90th Percentile - - £58.75
Hampshire median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +41.51% +21.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

Test Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 100 266 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 81.30% 88.96% 92.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 112 138
10th Percentile £363 £400 £201
25th Percentile £438 £450 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +14.50% +4.17%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £574
90th Percentile £660 £848 £672
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £581 £525
% change year-on-year -5.25% +10.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 100 22
10th Percentile £40.88 £51.06 £45.06
25th Percentile £53.13 £53.40 £51.44
Median hourly rate £58.88 £59.44 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +3.37% +27.78%
75th Percentile £63.44 £65.00 £67.02
90th Percentile £66.88 £76.86 £70.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £57.63 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +8.21% +113.80%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

Job postings citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth.

Job vacancy trend for Test Automation in Portsmouth

Test Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Portsmouth.

Daily rate trend for Test Automation in Portsmouth

Test Automation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Automation in Portsmouth.

Hourly rate trend for Test Automation in Portsmouth

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (10.00%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) HTTP
1 3 (30.00%) SNMP
1 3 (30.00%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) ObjectStore
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Git
2 5 (50.00%) JIRA
3 3 (30.00%) GoogleTest
3 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (30.00%) Robot Framework
4 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (10.00%) Postman
4 1 (10.00%) Selenium
4 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) Software Test Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Test Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (20.00%) Python Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Embedded Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) CSS
2 3 (30.00%) HTML
2 3 (30.00%) Next.js
2 3 (30.00%) Node.js
2 3 (30.00%) React
2 3 (30.00%) RESTful
2 3 (30.00%) Web Services
3 2 (20.00%) Django
3 2 (20.00%) FastAPI
3 2 (20.00%) Flask
3 2 (20.00%) pytest
3 2 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) Celery
4 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (10.00%) Spring
4 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Scrum
2 5 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
3 4 (40.00%) Code Quality
3 4 (40.00%) Software Testing
3 4 (40.00%) SysML
3 4 (40.00%) UML
4 3 (30.00%) Front End Development
4 3 (30.00%) Integration Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 3 (30.00%) Validation
4 3 (30.00%) Verification and Validation
4 3 (30.00%) Web Development
5 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (20.00%) SDLC
5 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Issue Tracking
6 1 (10.00%) Manual Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (10.00%) Google